where do I start? what types of programming should i learn? it is difficult?

without asking you to be more specific, these are a good start. [image] Developing Discourse Themes & Theme Components Developer Guides Discourse Themes and Theme Components can be used to customize the look, feel and functionality of Discourse’s frontend. This section of the developer guides aims to provide all the reference materials you need to develop simple themes for a single site, right up to complex open-source theme components. This introduction aims to provide a map of all the tools and APIs for theme development. If you prefer a step-by-step tutorial for theme development, jump straight to: Themes vs. Theme Compon… [image] Theme Developer Quick Reference Guide Developer Guides As themes grow more powerful, there’s more to remember about how they work. We have loads of detailed documentation under #theme-guides, but if you just need something to jog your memory, this guide may help. General Resources scroll Beginner’s guide scroll Designer’s guide scroll Developer’s guide paintbrush Theme Creator desktop_computer Theme CLI notebook_with_decorative_cover Theme Directory jigsaw Component Directory wrench Theme Modifiers wrench Themeable site se… [image] Beginner's guide to using Discourse Themes Site Management This is a crash course in Discourse theme basics. The target audience is everyone who is not familiar with Discourse themes. If you’ve already used Discourse theme / theme components, this guide is probably not something you need to read. What are themes and theme components? A theme or theme component is a set of files packaged together designed to either modify Discourse visually or to add new features. Let’s start with themes. Themes In general, themes are not supposed to be compatible … [image] Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides Building a plugin in Discourse can be really simple, once you learn a couple of quirks. The goal of this post is to create a skeleton plugin and introduce you to the basics. Your development environment Make sure you have a development environment of Discourse running on your computer. I recommend you use the appropriate setup guide and come back when you’re done. plugin.rb tada Use GitHub - discourse/discourse-plugin-skeleton: Template for Discourse plugins · GitHub to create a complete di… [image] How can I make my own Discourse plugins? Development I’ve only just started but here’s my ‘starter for 10’ to get you going: Read: these this Try and read the code on the simplest, but popular plugins and see if you can understand what they are doing (this is not always easy, especially with the complexity of dealing with multiple files and the sometimes brutal functional brevity of javasctipt, but persevere) You need to learn: Lots of Javascript (look no further than @mpj’s Fun Fun Function excellent & fun (!) videos (thanks man!)) Lots of …

Discourse style guide (best to use the one from your forum though): https://meta.discourse.org/styleguide/ CSS reference: [image] CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS describes how elements should be rendered on screen, on paper, in... and last but not least - Ember JS [image] Ember.js - A framework for ambitious web developers Ember.js helps developers be more productive out of the box. Designed with developer ergonomics in mind, its friendly APIs help you get your job done—fast. also, probably good to get familiar with GitHub and also GitHub: Discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse

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danielabc (Daniela) May 14, 2023, 4:17pm 4

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